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University of Southern California
SUMMER
TROJAN
NO. 14
LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA
WED., AUGUST 26, 1970
New policy to curb campus political action
A new policy statement restricting political activities on campus, drawn up earlier this month by the Board of Trustees was released last week and mailed to all students in the university.
Although the statement says it is not “an attempt to abridge the freedom of political expression of individuals” in the university, the policy prohibits the halting of classes or altering of the academic calendar for anything other than academic purposes and it prohibits campaigning for either candidates or legislation using the name of the university or its facilities.
The reason for the policy, according to Dan Nowak, interim dean of students, was pressure from a recent Internal Revenue Service decision and the concern that the university might jeopardize its status as a tax-free organization by allowing partisan political activities on campus.
Nowak called it a “fair policy and said it probably would not have that much effect on university activities.
When asked what the new policy would mean in terms of antiwar activity such as the strike of last May, Nowak said that it would not allow another such university stoppage to occur.
“But there are other ways of interpreting what the purposes of the strike were,” he added. “It’s going to be a matter of interpretation.”
According to the new policy it is not “intended to prohibit the traditional activities of recognized campus political organizations.” Nowak said that there are over 200 such student organizations that are recognized by the university, among them, People’s Response on Better Environment, Trojan Young Republicans and Women’s Liberation. However, according to Nowak, Student Movement for Peace, the group which grew out of last spring’s strike activities “is not a recognized campus group in any way, shape or form.”
Even the recognized groups may be restricted, however. Nowak said that various legislation-influencing activities by groups such as PROBE would have to follow a certain set of guidelines and interpretations which the university administration is now in the process of drawing up
Nowak said he had received no feedback from students about the new policy as yet, however, Stan DiOrio, a leader in the Student Movement for Peace, expressed dissatisfaction with the trustees statement.
“We really question some of the provisions and the process by which it was drawn up,” he said.
His main objection was that the statement closed off the options regarding the two-week period before the elections—a time when many student will want to put aside their normal activity and help in campaigns.
DiOrio said the administration was using the IRS as an excuse—that the IRS did not object to altering the academic calendar so that students would be free to work on campaigns during the two-week period.
Nowak said that the university would not “disallow” some students from taking leave of their classes for the two weeks— that it was a matter of personal conscience and would have to be worked out between the individual student and the individual faculty member.
He added that he was working with the ASSC to have an Elections Convocation on campus in October, “a period of time in which all candidates could express their views.”
In regard to how the policy statement would apply to some of USCs trustees who are actively and publicly involved in political campaigns — a question which concerned the student peace workers—Nowak said that if the trustees were interpreted as being part of the university community, then the policy should also apply to them, but he would not comment further.
Editor’s note: The complete policy statement on political activity appears on page 2.
Idyllwild festival of art, music to begin on Saturday
Art and drama will have their own place under the mountain sun—or moon— during the ninth annual ISOMATA Music Festival opening Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts.
A display and sale of student and faculty art—pottery, hand crafted leather, jewelry, painting, prints—is scheduled Thursday, Aug. 27, through Sunday; Aug. 30, with exhibits to be set up in Mellor and Steere Studies and in the Bowman Arts Patio.
The ISOMATA Theatre
Workshop, high school players under direction of .Robert McLaughlin, Hemet, will stage Francesca K. Dunfey’s “One With the Flame,” a three-act drama about loan of Arc, Thursday and Friday, Aug. 27 and Aug. 28, at 8 p.m. in Bowman Theatre.
The Music Festival, bringing a total of six concerts on two successive weekends, will feature performances by the Festival Orchestra, directed by Robert Oliveira, Bakersfield, and by the Festival Choir, conducted by Robert Holmes, Beverly Hills.
IN MAY-—THE WRITING ON THE WALL
_In the fall—the writing on a trustee statement—strikes not allowed.
'World Game’ meeting called for tomorrow on campus
By JACK MARQUETTE
“The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: An instruction book didn’t come with it”—R. Buckminster Fuller.
In these days of imminent ecological disaster a few potential solutions to these problems of unprecedented scale are beginning to materialize. A major step towards effectively dealing with earth-scale problems is, in fact, currently under way in virtually all of the highly industrialized nations of the globe: awareness.
The perception of a problem is, in a very real sense, a significant portion of its solution. And so the consequences of manipulating vast quantities of energy within an environmental context without an environmental perspective or responsibility on the part of the decision making processes are becoming painfully evident.
Every individual within every technologically ‘advanced’ area of the world is to some degree feeling, therefore, realizing, the first signs of these consequences. Citizens of Tokyo, Mexico City, London, Moscow, as well as the urban areas of America are intimately confronted each day with problems of a scale totally alien to the past. So the problems—or at least some of their outward manifestations—are being communicated in all too immediate terms.
But in any problem solving procedure awareness pre-as-sumes action. We must now look towards a means by which the problems of our newly perceived Global Village can be comprehensively anticipated and acted upon. And it was for this reason that the concept of World Game was envisioned by Buckminster Fuller and is being implemented on a prototypical basis at Southern Illinois University.
In the near future the “Game’ might have at its disposal the communications satellite technology that at this moment can (and is to a small degree only for isolated purposes) scan any of the Earth’s physical surface resources. So World Game, should it remain uncorrupted by the politics of nation-state dominance, as a great world information processing tool would
not only have the ability to accurately identify earth-scale problems, but specifically isolate those phenomena causing the problem, objectively enumerate alternative strategies for achieving the same ends and predict the environmental consequences of adopting any one of those alternatives within a whole systems syntax. In other words, World Game will provide answers: for the first time mankind might know where its going before it gets there.
Two general areas of the Game are weak: the process whereby information is made available to World Game; the process whereby information is made available to the global citizenry. Both areas will need extensive development if the Game is to work. So it is for these and more general reasons that interest and participation on an individual, group, or institutional level is sought.
World Game is by nature in-
terdisciplinary and requires diversity of input, so students, faculty, administrators interested are invited to attend the preliminary meeting at 2:00 in the Student Activities Center room 202 for the purpose of discussing the World Game as it might develop at USC, plans for Buckminster Fuller’s visit to USC in February (as part of Festival of the Arts), a report on developments at UCLA and California Institute of the Arts with respect to the Game, and whatever else might happen.
The meeting will be an informal group discussion and will include Gene Youngblood (writer, film critic), Max Acker-mann (working out of World Game Central, SIU), Phillip Hallicky (administrator, UCLA), lohn Gilchrist (professor of design, Architecture Department. USC), and others. Additional information is available by calling Jack Marquette (evenings) at 662-1708.
School of Social Work offers new programs
USC will have its first undergraduate social welfare majors this fall. A small group of juniors will be the first enrollees in the interdisciplinary program, who, with a limited number of students from other departments, will participate in the Human Development Semester, a sixteen unit package of courses loosely patterned after the Urban Semester.
Unlike the Urban Semester the Human Development program (sponsored jointly by the School of Social Work and the Gerontology Center) will be broken up into four courses taught by experts in biology, psychology, and sociology who will teach the specialized courses on human development from .the perspectives of their own disciplines. An additional seminar, taught by Barbara Solomon, will dwell upon specific crisis in the developmental stages of the human life cycle and will provide opportunities for cross-disciplinary integration. In addition to the classes and seminars, the Semester will provide laboratory and field experiences with an eye towards the planning of social welfare programs designed to maximize human potential.
Students entering the undergraduate social welfare program in the fall will start the first semester of the academic year in the Human Development Semester and will then be expected to enroll in the spring in the Urban Semester with the only modification being that they will be expected to study, in depth, a social problem of immediate relevance to social work. This restriction will not place any additional assignment upon the student, but will serve to limit the range of topics open to the Urban Semester student.
Faculty initially participating in the Human Development Semester will be Ruth Weg (Biology), fames Birren (Psychology), Vern Bengston (Sociology), Barbara Solomon (Social Work), and Robert Roberts (Director). Students interested in enrolling may contact Dr. Roberts in the School of Social Work, room 301, Administration Building or call 746-2711.

University of Southern California
SUMMER
TROJAN
NO. 14
LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA
WED., AUGUST 26, 1970
New policy to curb campus political action
A new policy statement restricting political activities on campus, drawn up earlier this month by the Board of Trustees was released last week and mailed to all students in the university.
Although the statement says it is not “an attempt to abridge the freedom of political expression of individuals” in the university, the policy prohibits the halting of classes or altering of the academic calendar for anything other than academic purposes and it prohibits campaigning for either candidates or legislation using the name of the university or its facilities.
The reason for the policy, according to Dan Nowak, interim dean of students, was pressure from a recent Internal Revenue Service decision and the concern that the university might jeopardize its status as a tax-free organization by allowing partisan political activities on campus.
Nowak called it a “fair policy and said it probably would not have that much effect on university activities.
When asked what the new policy would mean in terms of antiwar activity such as the strike of last May, Nowak said that it would not allow another such university stoppage to occur.
“But there are other ways of interpreting what the purposes of the strike were,” he added. “It’s going to be a matter of interpretation.”
According to the new policy it is not “intended to prohibit the traditional activities of recognized campus political organizations.” Nowak said that there are over 200 such student organizations that are recognized by the university, among them, People’s Response on Better Environment, Trojan Young Republicans and Women’s Liberation. However, according to Nowak, Student Movement for Peace, the group which grew out of last spring’s strike activities “is not a recognized campus group in any way, shape or form.”
Even the recognized groups may be restricted, however. Nowak said that various legislation-influencing activities by groups such as PROBE would have to follow a certain set of guidelines and interpretations which the university administration is now in the process of drawing up
Nowak said he had received no feedback from students about the new policy as yet, however, Stan DiOrio, a leader in the Student Movement for Peace, expressed dissatisfaction with the trustees statement.
“We really question some of the provisions and the process by which it was drawn up,” he said.
His main objection was that the statement closed off the options regarding the two-week period before the elections—a time when many student will want to put aside their normal activity and help in campaigns.
DiOrio said the administration was using the IRS as an excuse—that the IRS did not object to altering the academic calendar so that students would be free to work on campaigns during the two-week period.
Nowak said that the university would not “disallow” some students from taking leave of their classes for the two weeks— that it was a matter of personal conscience and would have to be worked out between the individual student and the individual faculty member.
He added that he was working with the ASSC to have an Elections Convocation on campus in October, “a period of time in which all candidates could express their views.”
In regard to how the policy statement would apply to some of USCs trustees who are actively and publicly involved in political campaigns — a question which concerned the student peace workers—Nowak said that if the trustees were interpreted as being part of the university community, then the policy should also apply to them, but he would not comment further.
Editor’s note: The complete policy statement on political activity appears on page 2.
Idyllwild festival of art, music to begin on Saturday
Art and drama will have their own place under the mountain sun—or moon— during the ninth annual ISOMATA Music Festival opening Saturday, Aug. 29, at the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts.
A display and sale of student and faculty art—pottery, hand crafted leather, jewelry, painting, prints—is scheduled Thursday, Aug. 27, through Sunday; Aug. 30, with exhibits to be set up in Mellor and Steere Studies and in the Bowman Arts Patio.
The ISOMATA Theatre
Workshop, high school players under direction of .Robert McLaughlin, Hemet, will stage Francesca K. Dunfey’s “One With the Flame,” a three-act drama about loan of Arc, Thursday and Friday, Aug. 27 and Aug. 28, at 8 p.m. in Bowman Theatre.
The Music Festival, bringing a total of six concerts on two successive weekends, will feature performances by the Festival Orchestra, directed by Robert Oliveira, Bakersfield, and by the Festival Choir, conducted by Robert Holmes, Beverly Hills.
IN MAY-—THE WRITING ON THE WALL
_In the fall—the writing on a trustee statement—strikes not allowed.
'World Game’ meeting called for tomorrow on campus
By JACK MARQUETTE
“The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: An instruction book didn’t come with it”—R. Buckminster Fuller.
In these days of imminent ecological disaster a few potential solutions to these problems of unprecedented scale are beginning to materialize. A major step towards effectively dealing with earth-scale problems is, in fact, currently under way in virtually all of the highly industrialized nations of the globe: awareness.
The perception of a problem is, in a very real sense, a significant portion of its solution. And so the consequences of manipulating vast quantities of energy within an environmental context without an environmental perspective or responsibility on the part of the decision making processes are becoming painfully evident.
Every individual within every technologically ‘advanced’ area of the world is to some degree feeling, therefore, realizing, the first signs of these consequences. Citizens of Tokyo, Mexico City, London, Moscow, as well as the urban areas of America are intimately confronted each day with problems of a scale totally alien to the past. So the problems—or at least some of their outward manifestations—are being communicated in all too immediate terms.
But in any problem solving procedure awareness pre-as-sumes action. We must now look towards a means by which the problems of our newly perceived Global Village can be comprehensively anticipated and acted upon. And it was for this reason that the concept of World Game was envisioned by Buckminster Fuller and is being implemented on a prototypical basis at Southern Illinois University.
In the near future the “Game’ might have at its disposal the communications satellite technology that at this moment can (and is to a small degree only for isolated purposes) scan any of the Earth’s physical surface resources. So World Game, should it remain uncorrupted by the politics of nation-state dominance, as a great world information processing tool would
not only have the ability to accurately identify earth-scale problems, but specifically isolate those phenomena causing the problem, objectively enumerate alternative strategies for achieving the same ends and predict the environmental consequences of adopting any one of those alternatives within a whole systems syntax. In other words, World Game will provide answers: for the first time mankind might know where its going before it gets there.
Two general areas of the Game are weak: the process whereby information is made available to World Game; the process whereby information is made available to the global citizenry. Both areas will need extensive development if the Game is to work. So it is for these and more general reasons that interest and participation on an individual, group, or institutional level is sought.
World Game is by nature in-
terdisciplinary and requires diversity of input, so students, faculty, administrators interested are invited to attend the preliminary meeting at 2:00 in the Student Activities Center room 202 for the purpose of discussing the World Game as it might develop at USC, plans for Buckminster Fuller’s visit to USC in February (as part of Festival of the Arts), a report on developments at UCLA and California Institute of the Arts with respect to the Game, and whatever else might happen.
The meeting will be an informal group discussion and will include Gene Youngblood (writer, film critic), Max Acker-mann (working out of World Game Central, SIU), Phillip Hallicky (administrator, UCLA), lohn Gilchrist (professor of design, Architecture Department. USC), and others. Additional information is available by calling Jack Marquette (evenings) at 662-1708.
School of Social Work offers new programs
USC will have its first undergraduate social welfare majors this fall. A small group of juniors will be the first enrollees in the interdisciplinary program, who, with a limited number of students from other departments, will participate in the Human Development Semester, a sixteen unit package of courses loosely patterned after the Urban Semester.
Unlike the Urban Semester the Human Development program (sponsored jointly by the School of Social Work and the Gerontology Center) will be broken up into four courses taught by experts in biology, psychology, and sociology who will teach the specialized courses on human development from .the perspectives of their own disciplines. An additional seminar, taught by Barbara Solomon, will dwell upon specific crisis in the developmental stages of the human life cycle and will provide opportunities for cross-disciplinary integration. In addition to the classes and seminars, the Semester will provide laboratory and field experiences with an eye towards the planning of social welfare programs designed to maximize human potential.
Students entering the undergraduate social welfare program in the fall will start the first semester of the academic year in the Human Development Semester and will then be expected to enroll in the spring in the Urban Semester with the only modification being that they will be expected to study, in depth, a social problem of immediate relevance to social work. This restriction will not place any additional assignment upon the student, but will serve to limit the range of topics open to the Urban Semester student.
Faculty initially participating in the Human Development Semester will be Ruth Weg (Biology), fames Birren (Psychology), Vern Bengston (Sociology), Barbara Solomon (Social Work), and Robert Roberts (Director). Students interested in enrolling may contact Dr. Roberts in the School of Social Work, room 301, Administration Building or call 746-2711.